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9-letter words containing s, t, y, l

  • cystocele — a hernia of the urinary bladder, esp one protruding into the vagina
  • cystolith — a knoblike deposit of calcium carbonate in the epidermal cells of such plants as the stinging nettle
  • cytolysin — a substance that can partially or completely destroy animal cells
  • cytolysis — the dissolution of cells, esp by the destruction of their membranes
  • cytoplasm — the protoplasm of a cell contained within the cell membrane but excluding the nucleus: contains organelles, vesicles, and other inclusions
  • cytoplast — the intact cytoplasm of a single cell
  • cytosolic — of or relating to a cytosol
  • dactylics — Plural form of dactylic.
  • dactylist — someone who writes poetry in dactyls
  • dastardly — If you describe an action as dastardly, you mean it is wicked and intended to hurt someone.
  • daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
  • decastyle — a portico consisting of ten columns
  • desultory — Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
  • dialysate — (in the process of dialysis) the fluid passing through the dialyser, used for drawing toxins out of the patient's blood stream
  • dismality — the quality of being dismal
  • distantly — far off or apart in space; not near at hand; remote or removed (often followed by from): a distant place; a town three miles distant from here.
  • doltishly — In a doltish manner.
  • drysalter — a dealer in dry chemicals and dyes.
  • duteously — In a duteous manner.
  • dysfluent — Without proper fluency; not fluent.
  • dyslectic — Dyslexic.
  • earnestly — serious in intention, purpose, or effort; sincerely zealous: an earnest worker.
  • east lyme — a town in SE Connecticut.
  • endostyle — (zoology) A longitudinal ciliated groove on the ventral wall of the pharynx which produces mucus to gather food particles, found in urochordates and cephalochordates and in the larvae of lampreys.
  • epicotyls — Plural form of epicotyl.
  • estimably — In an estimable manner; deserving of esteem.
  • eucalypts — Plural form of eucalypt.
  • eyes left — a command to troops to look left, esp as a salute when marching
  • eyestalks — Plural form of eyestalk.
  • faculty's — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
  • fatuously — With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.
  • festilogy — a treatise on the subject of church festivals
  • festively — pertaining to or suitable for a feast or festival: festive decorations; a festive meal.
  • fiscality — Fiscal policy or considerations.
  • fissility — Quality of being fissile.
  • floristry — The art of creating flower arrangements.
  • fly sheet — a sheet on which instructions or information are printed; handbill.
  • flyposter — a poster, esp unauthorized, put up to publicize something
  • flysheets — Plural form of flysheet.
  • flystrike — myiasis.
  • freestyle — Swimming. competition in which any of the standard strokes may be used, according to the swimmer's choice. the crawl.
  • ghostlily — In a ghostly way.
  • glass tty — /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ A terminal that has a display screen but which, because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both: like a printing terminal, it can't do fancy display hacks, and like a display terminal, it doesn't produce hard copy. An example is the early "dumb" version of Lear-Siegler ADM 3 (without cursor control). See tube, tty; compare dumb terminal, smart terminal. See "TV Typewriters" for an interesting true story about a glass tty.
  • globesity — obesity as affecting a very large percentage of the global population: the public-health crisis of globesity.
  • gnu style — (programming)   An obsolete and deprecated source code indent style used throughout GNU Emacs and the Free Software Foundation code, and just about nowhere else. Indents are always four spaces per level, with "" and "" halfway between the outer and inner indent levels. if (cond) { } (2014-09-24)
  • goatishly — In a goatish way.
  • gutlessly — In a gutless way; with cowardice.
  • hairstyle — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
  • halysites — an extinct genus comprising the chain corals.
  • hastately — in a hastate manner
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